Be certain you understand all of your instructors' policies about AI use in all your courses
Wright State University's Academic Integrity Standards and Process for Misconduct addresses Artificial Intelligence in Section 3710.2:
"If an AI statement is not included in the course syllabus and/or course content, then students may not use any type of generative AI to complete coursework. Using generative AI to complete any assignment or exam, or any portion thereof, without express permission from the instructor, will constitute an academic integrity violation and may result in penalties."
Be certain you understand if AI use is permitted in each course and if so, what your professor has delineated as acceptable uses of AI. If AI use is explicitly permitted for particular purposes, be sure to follow the use and citation guidelines of your discipline's citation style manual and your professor's instructions. Consider keeping for your own records a screenshot or download of the exact output you retrieved from the AI tool you used, as the same prompt does not generate the same output over time.
AI Security at Wright State
- AI Usage at Wright State (CaTS | Information Technology)Legal and ethical guidelines for data privacy and security, including AI note-taking best practices.
Student Guide to Artificial Intelligence
- Student guide to artificial intelligence v2.0 - 2025Excellent guide to the benefits and concerns of using AI and tips for developing the skills to use AI ethically. Released under a under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC) license, "the Student Guide to Artificial Intelligence is an initiative of Elon University‘s [Elon, NC] Imagining the Digital Future Center, in partnership with the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)". See About for more information.
Selected Highlights from the Student Guide
Citing and Documenting AI Use - Guidance from the APA
- How to cite ChatGPT (and other generative AI tools)From APA Style Blog, citing Chat-GPT in papers. As always, defer to your instructor's policies about whether AI use is permitted in your course and acceptable uses of AI (if permitted). To learn more about the APA guidelines and policies for student and author use of ChatGPT, please see the last section of this blog post.
- APA policy on the use of generative artiifical intelligence (AI) in scholarly materialsAPA Journals published this policy. In this context, AI refers to generative LLM AI tools and does not include grammar-checking software, citation software, or plagiarism detectors.
Artificial Intelligence (AI): Privacy and Security Concerns
- 6 Steps to Protect Your Privacy While Using Generative AIby Jordan Brown. Sept. 1, 2024
- Duck.ai | DuckDuckGo Help PagesLearn about Duck AI, "a free feature that allows you to have private conversations with 3rd-party AI chat models, anonymized by DuckDuckGo. It currently supports Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku, Meta’s Llama 3.3 70B, Mistral AI’s Mixtral 8x7B, and OpenAI’s GPT-4o mini."
- Duck.aiTry various chat models without logging in or creating an account. Return to past conversations with Duck.ai’s Recent Chats feature, which stores chats locally on your device – not on DuckDuckGo or other remote servers. Recent chats can be deleted individually or with a click of the Fire button. Easily download a record of the AI outputs from your prompts.
Although your inputs are anonymized and are not supposed to be used to train AI, you should still use caution: Avoid entering personal or private information about yourself or anyone else and do not reproduce or upload copyrighted or licensed material.
